Beatriz Robledo got a scholarship to study in France. She thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe for this and promise to be at her best.

I thank Jesus for giving me positive proof that my dog Thunder is not the reincarnation of my landlord to whom I owed a lot of money.

My husband got a parrot as a gift. The parrot sang obscene songs. My children didn’t understand it but were very happy and memorized all this filthiness. I asked Saint Francis to bring the parrot under control because my husband didn’t want to give it away. With saint’s help and with great patience I managed to make the parrot to sing nursery rhymes.

Martin Gonzalez was passionate about marine biology. He thanks the Virgin of Zapopan because he discovered a giant crab while diving. Moreover he managed to take a photograph of the crab and to study it.

Raquel Zavaleta thanks Saint Michael the Archangel with this retablo because her dream to become a great trapeze artist came true and now she travels to whole Republic.

I took my kids to walk in the field and we stayed there up till late. We didn’t noticed that it was the witch time, when the witches fly to Catemaco on their brooms. I thank the Blessed Sacrament for protecting us, with its infinite power, from the witches so they didn’t see us.

I thank because we met again at the town bandstand.

Rodrigo Alcantara, the most handsome bachelor in the area, proposed to me. He said that I had won his heart with my food. In fact, I’m very proud about my cooking skills so I gladly agreed to marry Rodrigo. I thanks Saint Anthony for the happy marriage.

Joaquin Fernandez gives thanks with the retablo to Saint John Bosco for the success he had with his boxing gym and for he has some promising boxers.

At the Christmas party in the neighborhood I went to put some liquor in my punch. Since I was already tipsy I got into the piñata event and was kicked in the head. I give thanks to Saint James the Apostle because I got only the lump. I promise not to drink so much.

Serapio Esparza
Oaxaca, 1968

The shadow of my late husband comes at night to look after me. I thank the Virgin for giving me consolation because then I don’t feel lonely.

My parents forced me to get married with a man I didn’t love only because he was a rich landowner. But it happened that exactly on the day of the wedding Jose Garcia, the man who I always loved, came back to town. He abducted me at the church door. I give thanks to the Blessed Sacrament because now we are going to be happy together.